Nas's Cyber Corner

AI is everywhere in the news right now. Every product is "AI-powered." Every company is "integrating AI." But when you strip away the marketing, what is artificial intelligence actually doing? And how much of what people say about it is accurate? Let's cut through the noise. AI is pattern recognition. At its core, AI is software that learns patterns from data and uses those patterns to make predictions or decisions. That's it. It's not thinking. It's not conscious. It's not p

What it is, how the 6 functions work, and why understanding it could land you your first security job

Walk into any office server room, and you'll see a rack full of blinking boxes with cables running everywhere. Some of those boxes are routers, some are switches, and if the office is old enough, maybe a hub or two gathering dust. They all move data, but they do so in very different ways. Understanding the difference between them is something you'll need to have locked down early. Hubs — the dumbest device on the network I'm not being mean. A hub is genuinely unintelligent. I